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January 13 - Energy Policy Gains Urgency

January 13 - Talking Points: Energy

January 20 - Confirmation Hearings Held on Other Bush Nominees

January 27 - Electricity Deregulation Supporters, Skeptics Draw Lessons From California Crisis

January 27 - GOP's Energy Agenda

January 27 - Rep. Tauzin Attacks Contract To Manage Nuclear Labs

February 3 - Chairman Tauzin Charts A Bold Course for Commerce

February 3 - Chairmen Stake Their Claims To Oversee Business Issues

February 3 - Neighboring States' Resentments Complicate California's Search For Help With Power Crisis

February 10 - Pipeline Safety Measure Is Revived and Passed in Senate; House Approach Uncertain

February 24 - Home Heating Aid Gets Push

February 24 - Murkowski Set to Introduce Energy Bill Hinging on Drilling in Arctic Refuge

March 3 - Agency by Agency: Where the Money Would Go

March 3 - Fast Action Urged on Brownfields Bill

March 3 - Taxpayer Group, Environmentalists Criticize Billions in Tax Incentives Contained in Republican Energy Bill

March 3 - Unveiling a Bit Too Much

March 10 - Senate Accelerates Efforts To Boost Home Heating Aid For Low-Income Americans

March 17 - Bush's Decision Not to Curb Carbon Dioxide Casts Shadow on Emission Control Legislation

March 24 - Democratic Bills Stress Energy Conservation; Bush Presses Case for Enhancing Production

March 24 - Production vs. Conservation

March 24 - White House Casts a Hungry Eye On Energy-Rich Monument Lands

March 31 - GOP Opens Discussions On Measures to Allay California's Power Crisis

March 31 - Kyoto Decision Worries Some GOP Moderates

March 31 - Norton Signals More Changes To Monuments

April 7 - Byproducts and Bad Chemistry

April 7 - Cheney Indicates Interest

April 7 - Interior's Proposal to Relax Offshore Oil Drilling Restrictions Gets Mixed Response on Hill

April 7 - New Nukes: A Senator's Blueprint for Plentiful Power

April 7 - Polishing the Industry's Image

April 21 - GOP Energy Bill Attacked For Pollution Control Waivers, Lack of Wholesale Price Caps

April 28 - Competing Legislation

April 28 - Fear of Widening Electricity Shortages Erodes Resistance to Regional Price Caps

May 5 - Congress Still Far From Consensus On Remedies for Energy Crunch

May 5 - GOP, Businesses Rewrite The Regulatory Playbook

May 5 - Nominee's Faith in Risk Analysis Sharpens Debate on Rulemaking Process

May 12 - Calls for Quick Energy Fixes Put GOP Plan on Defensive

May 12 - House Panel Rejects Price Caps

May 19 - Bush Urged to Shift Emphasis To Fuel Efficiency Standards

May 19 - Energy and Water: Cuts to the Corps

May 19 - Key Recommendations Of Bush Energy Plan

May 19 - Sanctions on Oil-Producing Nations Still Have Powerful Support

May 19 - Strong Feelings Fuel Debate On Aid to Azerbaijan

May 26 - Energy: ANWR out; Price Curbs in

May 26 - White House Seeks to Build Energy Bill On Perceived Areas of Common Ground

June 2 - A Change in Attitude and Latitude Over Energy Policy in the Senate

June 9 - Democrats Demur On Nuclear Power

June 9 - Energy Bill Agendas Rewritten As GOP Opts for Slower Pace

June 9 - Where the Parties Stand

June 16 - A Different Pork Fight

June 16 - Agriculture Spending Add-On Puts Fiscal Discipline to Early Test

June 16 - Energy Tax Initiatives

June 16 - EPA Gasoline Ruling Riles Californians

June 16 - House Passes Sudan Sanctions; Panel Marks Up Bill to Renew Curbs On Energy Industries in Iran and Libya

June 16 - Members Find Bipartisanship Comes Easy On Tax Incentives to Ease Energy Shortfalls

June 16 - Supplemental Spending Bill May Be A Picture of Bipartisan Restraint

June 23 - Bush's Energy Exploration Plans Rebuffed in House Interior Bill

June 23 - Energy and Water Spending Bill Revives Debate Over Missouri River Management

June 23 - FERC Move to Expand Price Controls Means Energy Policy Debate Can Now Focus on Long Term

June 23 - Subcommittee Approves Repair Of Some Dams by Private Groups

June 30 - Bush's Energy Plan

June 30 - GOP Signals Willingness to Increase SUV Mileage Requirements

June 30 - House Passes Energy-Water Bill; GOP Moderates Join Democrats In Backing Great Lakes Drilling Ban

July 7 - DeLay Seeks Quick Compromise On Electricity Deregulation; Federal Role Is Sticking Point

July 14 - House GOP Reshapes Cheney Energy Plan To Put Emphasis on Conservation

July 14 - Missouri River Management Plan Would Be Bottled Up Until 2003 By Senate's Energy-Water Bill

July 21 - Four Parts of President's Energy Plan Could Be Combined Into Omnibus Bill

July 21 - GOP Races to Enact Bush Energy Plan As Public's Sense of Crisis Subsides

July 21 - House Bill Would Authorize $6 Billion for 'Clean Coal,' Other Research Programs

July 21 - House Resources Committee Approves Energy Bill After Harsh Debate on ANWR

July 21 - Panel Exceeds Bush Proposals In Approving Tax Incentives For Conservation, Production

July 21 - Rifts Over Price Supports and Conservation Will Complicate Work on Farm Bill

July 21 - Senate Passes Energy-Water Bill; Yucca Mountain Nuclear Funding Faces Reid's Opposition in Conference

July 28 - Democrats Ramp Up 'Green' Legislation In Displeasure Over Bush's Kyoto Stand

July 28 - Frustrated GOP Leaders Struggle With Defections Over Rules

July 28 - GOP Tempers Energy Plan With Eye to a Wary Public

August 4 - Energy Amendments

August 4 - House Passage of Bush Energy Plan Sets Up Clash With Senate

August 11 - Burning Dollars for Biomass Research?

September 1 - Farm Policy's Future Takes Shape In Chairmen's Disparate Visions

September 1 - The Past Four Farm Bills

September 8 - California Democrats' Plan To Protect Their Gains in House Prompts GOP Rep. Horn to Retire

September 8 - Letup in Cost of Fuel and Electricity Blunts Energy Package Momentum

September 8 - Where the Bills Part Ways

September 22 - Despite Senate's Bipartisan Tone, Deal on Energy Will Be Difficult

September 29 - America's Infrastructure at Risk: What Is the Federal Role?

September 29 - Democrats Say They Won't Be Rushed Into Scheduling Senate Debate On GOP's Energy Legislation

September 29 - Energy Bills at a Glance

September 29 - GAO-Cheney Document Dispute on Hold

September 29 - Long-Shot Fuel Additive Bill Advances

October 6 - Bills to Build Momentum

October 6 - Bingaman in No Rush on Energy Legislation, But Lobbyists Leave Nothing to Chance

October 6 - Lawmakers Start Work on Measures To Protect Infrastructure, Population

October 13 - Daschle Blocks Markup of Energy Bills As Panel Democrats Threaten to Bolt

October 20 - Interior Bill Sails Through Congress But Budget Woes May Cut Deep Next Year

October 20 - Threats and Priorities

October 20 - Top Appropriators Steer Money To Home State Projects

October 27 - ANWR and Career Options

November 3 - Energy-Water Bill Clears After Conferees Scale Back Nuclear Non-Proliferation Funds

November 3 - Nuclear Liability Protection Bill Advances Swiftly in House But Faces Resistance in Senate

November 17 - Labor-HHS Bill Could Be Used By Lawmakers to Pry Funds Loose For Energy Assistance Program

November 24 - More Lawmakers Turn Attention To Protecting Nuclear Power Plants And Responding to a Radiation Release

December 1 - EMPLOYMENT & LABOR: Two Cloture Votes Will Determine Whether Railroad Retirement Bill Can Win Enactment This Session

December 1 - ENERGY: Murkowski and Allies Fume At Pace of Energy Bill in Senate

December 1 - ENERGY: Nuclear Company Lobbyists Turn Attention to Senate As House Passes Liability Bill

December 8 - Hearings on Enron Collapse Ramp Up

December 8 - Senate's Energy Policy Rift Grows As Democrats Unfurl Their Bill And GOP Loses ANWR Vote

December 15 - Foes of Yucca Mountain Waste Site Face Their Most Critical Battle Yet

December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Energy

December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Energy and Water Appropriations

December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Interior Appropriations

December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Nuclear Liability

December 22 - House Key Vote: Drilling in ANWR (Vote 317)